In message <41DE1D9E.4010805@multi.fi>, Staffan Thomen writes:
>Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> I just set up a machine with only xorg.  That is, I didn't install any=
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>> of the X packages from the distribution.  (Well, the CD I built; it's =

>> -current from yesterday.)  I then built xorg from source.  When I try =

>> to run anything -- including such things as xterm -- it tells me that =

>> it can't find things like libX11.so.6.
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>> I can bypass the problem by creating a symlink X11R6 that points to pk=
g/xorg
>.
>> Apart from that being ugly, when I install new distributions (this =

>> machine does run -current) it will remove that symlink and create a =

>> dummy tree.  Is there any clean way around the problem?
>
>I worked around this (shouldn't rpaths be set properly here, at least =

>for pkgsrc-built stuff?) by adding /usr/pkg/xorg/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf,=
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>and everything is fine.
>
Ah -- that's probably the missing piece.  I tried looking for some file =

like that last night, but couldn't find it.  (Besides, I had this vague =

recollection that it only applied to non-ELF executables.)  I'll try it =

when I get home.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb